Operations Research & Management Science: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Expert Systems With Applications	120
2	Reliability Engineering & System Safety	87
3	European Journal of Operational Research	75
4	Journal of Manufacturing Systems	72
5	Management Science	70
6	International Journal of Production Economics	67
7	International Journal of Production Research	63
8	Technovation	61
9	Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review	59
10	IEEE Systems Journal	50
-	Safety Science	50
-	Annals of Operations Research	50
13	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	46
14	Production and Operations Management	45
15	M&SOM-Manufacturing & Service Operations Management	44
16	International Journal of Systems Science	42
17	Computers & Operations Research	41
18	Decision Support Systems	40
-	OMEGA-International Journal of Management Science	40
20	Transportation Research Part B-Methodological	39
21	Journal of Operations Management	30
-	Operations Research	30
23	Production Planning & Control	28
24	Transportation Science	27
25	International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing	24
-	Informs Journal on Computing	24
27	Systems & Control Letters	23
28	International Transactions in Operational Research	22
-	Quality and Reliability Engineering International	22
-	RAIRO-Operations Research	22
31	Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics	18
-	Journal of the Operational Research Society	18
-	Mathematical Programming	18
-	Mathematics of Operations Research	18
35	Optimal Control Applications & Methods	17
-	IISE Transactions	17
37	Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making	16
-	Computational Optimization and Applications	16
39	International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making	15
-	Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications	15
-	Engineering Optimization	15
-	Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal	15
43	Operational Research	14
-	Journal of Global Optimization	14
45	Memetic Computing	13
-	Naval Research Logistics	13
-	Optimization and Engineering	13
-	Optimization	13
-	Quality Technology and Quantitative Management	13
50	Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry	12

-	Central European Journal of Operations Research	12
-	Systems Engineering	12
53	International Journal of Systems Science-Operations & Logistics	11
-	Operations Research Letters	11
-	Optimization Methods & Software	11
-	Networks	11
-	Optimization Letters	11
-	OR Spectrum	11
59	Informs Journal on Applied Analytics	10
-	Mathematical Programming Computation	10
-	Operations Research Perspectives	10
62	IMA Journal of Management Mathematics	9
-	Journal of Scheduling	9
-	4OR-A Quarterly Journal of Operations Research	9
-	Journal of Quality Technology	9
-	Journal of Simulation	9
-	Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering	9
-	Studies in Informatics and Control	9
-	Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research	9
70	Networks & Spatial Economics	8
-	Discrete Optimization	8
-	International Journal of Technology Management	8
-	Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part O-Journal of Risk and Reliability	8
74	Mathematical Methods of Operations Research	7
-	Queueing Systems	7
-	International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations	7
-	TOP	7
-	Concurrent Engineering-Research and Applications	7
-	Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications	7
-	European Journal of Industrial Engineering	7
81	Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences	6
82	INFOR	5
-	Engineering Economist	5